On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:39:43 -0400, Joe Zien
I never compiled from source so I wanted to learn myself.
Doing so requires a fair bit of knowledge in order to be able to react when things go wrong. You need to understand the tools needed to compile, i.e. tools like make, gcc, automake, autoconf, libtool, bison just to name very few. The second thing to keep in mind is that by compiling from source and installing without using rpm means bypassing your package management and almost always means you can't cleanly remove a package from your system. Having said that, I'd recommend downloading the .src.rpm of a package in question, unpacking that with unrpm (IMO better then installing it) and then studying the .spec file of that package. That should tell you which specific packages are needed to build and to use a package (besides the basic development tools). Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org